Comments on: MS Virtual PC vs VirutalBox

By: 4sysops - Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1 vs. Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.1.0

4sysops - Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1 vs. Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.1.0 — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:58:20 +0000

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By: F3ca

F3ca — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:10:09 +0000

The screen resolution can be anything after you installed “add-ons”, and set the virtual box configuration correctly. (Preferences–>display).

After this you can _resize_ the virtualbox’s window.

By: Latee Brown

Latee Brown — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:12:53 +0000

I have been using Virtual PC 2007 for over a year now and from what I know it has ‘mouse integration’, you install the ‘Integrated mouse’ and the features that allow you to access USB devices after you have installed your support Guest OS by selection from the Menu: Action > Install or Update Virtual Machine Additions

You can find more information in the Help Topics, here is some info:

Virtual Machine Additions includes the following features:

Drag and drop
Folder sharing
‘Integrated mouse’
Optimized video drivers
Time synchronization
Clipboard sharing
Improved operating system performance
‘Dynamic resizing of the virtual machine window, which automatically adjusts the size of the guest operating system desktop’…

See ‘Using removable media, drives, and other devices’ in the Help Topics for accessing USB devices; it is done by using shared folders.

Anyway, I thought some of you might like to know, otherwise I am sorry for waisting your time.

By: Kasim Hansia

Kasim Hansia — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:42:54 +0000

For a better resolution in Ubuntu after installing VirtualBox add-ons, do the following

1. Backup /etc/X11/xorg.conf by using the following command
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup

Then edit the xorg.conf using nano, pico, vi or gedit so that it looks like the following below

Section “Device”
Identifier “Configured Video Device”
Driver “vesa”
Option “UseFBDev” “true”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Configured Monitor”
Option “DPMS”
HorizSync 30-70
VertRefresh 50-160
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “Default Screen”
Monitor “Configured Monitor”
Device “Configured Video Device”
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection “Display”
Depth 16
Modes “1024×768″ “800×600″
EndSubSection
EndSection

THAT’S IT. REBOOT YOUR VIRTUAL UBUNTU BOX.

When you try to configure your display/screen resolution, it’ll give you more resolution options.

Enjoy

By: JKD

JKD — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:53:04 +0000

I didnt know MS VPC has USB Support..Could you clarify on that please?
Thank you!

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:34:19 +0000

Don’t diss Virtual PC just because it’s a MS product. Keep in mind VirtualBox is only for home/personal use, so violating the license is not a difficult thing to do.

On technical details, network bridge (all OSes) & USB support (Windows) is quite seamless in Virtual PC compared to VirtualBox. As you say, VirtualBox’s mouse integration is good in Linux OSes.

By: Klemen

Klemen — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:32:51 +0000

virtualbox is much easier to use, you cen share files with primary computers easly, and what is more important you dont need to fuck, with reading cd/dvd and usb devices, like in virtual pc.I spent 4hours yust to figure it out how you share files.Stupid

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links for 2008-03-24 | Lazycoder — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:19:52 +0000

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By: James Selvakumar

James Selvakumar — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:56:38 +0000

Hi sweemeng,
Yes, I like the “seamless” mode in virtualbox very much. In fact, i would say that it is one of the feature which made me to switch to virtualbox.

By: James Selvakumar

James Selvakumar — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:55:18 +0000

Hi miwabba,
Thank you very much for pointing out the mistakes. I will try to correct that in my future posts. (I use firefox only but didn’t spend much time in the suggestions it offered to correct the spelling mistakes)
Any way, thank you very much.